WoRMS taxon details

Geitlerinema splendidum (Gomont) Anagnostidis, 1989

577244  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:577244)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Oscillatoria splendida Greville ex Gomont, 1892) Gomont, M. (1892 (1893)). Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique.</em> 7(16): 91-264. [details]  OpenAccess publication 
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:59420  
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:59420 [details]

Description Thallus fine, membranaceous, consisting of fascicle-like bundles, brigh blue-green or olive green. Trichomes up to 1 mm...  
Description Thallus fine, membranaceous, consisting of fascicle-like bundles, brigh blue-green or olive green. Trichomes up to 1 mm long, straight or slightly coiled, occasion¬ally ring-like coiled, (1.5) 1.8-3.1 μm wide, intensely motile, gliding, with oscillation and clockwise rotation, not constricted at the ungranulated (or rarely granulated) cross-walls, gradually attenuated at the ends, ± bent, sometimes screw-like or ending (?) in a sickle. Cells 2-4x longer than wide, 3-9 (10) μm long; cell content with prominent cyanophycin granules (never carotenoid), sometimes near the cross-walls. Apical cells strikingly attenuated and hooked, ± spherically-capitate. Variable species, numerous subspecific taxa (of Oscillatoria splendida): var. attenuata W.et G.S. West 1896; var. fuellebornii Schmidle 1902; var. bacilliformis Playfair 1914; var. truncata Emoto et Hirose 1939; f. woronichinii Anisimova in Elenkin 1949; f. circinata (Kutzing) Forti 1907; f. phorinidioides (Hansgirg) Forti 1907; f. maior Kufferath 1929; f. uncinata Setchell et Gardner 1903; and others. Taxonomic value of all these taxa must be revised.  [details]
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2024). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Geitlerinema splendidum (Gomont) Anagnostidis, 1989. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=577244 on 2024-04-18
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2011-07-18 07:02:06Z
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2015-06-26 12:00:51Z
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original description  (of Oscillatoria splendida Greville ex Gomont, 1892) Gomont, M. (1892 (1893)). Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique.</em> 7(16): 91-264. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2023). AlgaeBase. <em>World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.</em> searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:59420 [details]

From regional or thematic species database
Description Thallus fine, membranaceous, consisting of fascicle-like bundles, brigh blue-green or olive green. Trichomes up to 1 mm long, straight or slightly coiled, occasion¬ally ring-like coiled, (1.5) 1.8-3.1 μm wide, intensely motile, gliding, with oscillation and clockwise rotation, not constricted at the ungranulated (or rarely granulated) cross-walls, gradually attenuated at the ends, ± bent, sometimes screw-like or ending (?) in a sickle. Cells 2-4x longer than wide, 3-9 (10) μm long; cell content with prominent cyanophycin granules (never carotenoid), sometimes near the cross-walls. Apical cells strikingly attenuated and hooked, ± spherically-capitate. Variable species, numerous subspecific taxa (of Oscillatoria splendida): var. attenuata W.et G.S. West 1896; var. fuellebornii Schmidle 1902; var. bacilliformis Playfair 1914; var. truncata Emoto et Hirose 1939; f. woronichinii Anisimova in Elenkin 1949; f. circinata (Kutzing) Forti 1907; f. phorinidioides (Hansgirg) Forti 1907; f. maior Kufferath 1929; f. uncinata Setchell et Gardner 1903; and others. Taxonomic value of all these taxa must be revised.  [details]

Harmful effect Strains of this species isolated in culture were found to produce microcystins and Anatoxin-a (Uriza et al. 2017) [details]